Briefly describe what combination of technologies is enabling the IoT.

What will be an ideal response?


Wireless technologies coupled with powerful single-board computers (SBCs) and microcontrollers the size of a credit card (and often smaller), are enabling a large number and variety of sensors to be installed in a multitude of devices and locations and connected to the Internet via WLANs or cellular technology. This is referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT).

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